Leslie Lamport
Leslie Lamport is a computer scientist and mathematician. He was born on the 7th of February 1941. He is well known for being the creator of LaTeX, a document formatter along with writing the manual for the formatter.[1]
Early life
[change | change source]Leslie was born into a family of Jewish immigrants from Russia and Poland in the city of New York. He was a graduate from the Bronx High School of Science and got a degree in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Brandeis University in the years 1960, 1963, and 1972.[2]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ Lamport, Leslie (1986). LaTeX: A Document Preparation System. Addison-Wesley. ISBN 978-0-201-15790-1. Retrieved 2019-06-20.
- ↑ "The Writings of Leslie Lamport". research.microsoft.com. Retrieved 2024-01-14.